What's the difference between bull and cosmos?

Bull


Definition:

  • (n.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
  • (n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
  • (n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
  • (n.) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
  • (v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
  • (v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.
  • (v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
  • (v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (2) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (3) This procedure can quickly provide acrosome-reacted bull sperm for use with various in vitro fertilization procedures and for assessment of male fertility.
  • (4) The total glutathione peroxidase activity was unrelated to studied variables of bull semen.
  • (5) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (6) Two ejaculates were harvested by electroejaculation on each of 3 d per week for 14 wk from 14, 12- to 24-mo-old Holstein bulls.
  • (7) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
  • (8) Twenty-three cases (72%) were found in young bulls aged 18 months or less.
  • (9) Six Holstein (light-muscled type) and six Belgian Blue bulls (double-muscled type) were fed a finishing diet.
  • (10) The bull's eye method showed redistribution in 5 of 19 patients (26%) in Group B, 5 of 19 (26%) with % delta Th < or = 0 and 2 of 9 (22%) with IVSE < or = 0.
  • (11) Basic peptides (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, bull seminal isoinhibitors of trypsin, arginine vasopressin and adamantylamide-alanylisoglutamine) were analysed with a cationic ITP system at acidic pH.
  • (12) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
  • (13) Out of the 2550 ejaculates taken from 42 breeding bulls within 12 months, 685, i.e.
  • (14) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
  • (15) Single atrial myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the bull-frog as previously described (Hume & Giles, 1981), and patch-clamp techniques were used in an attempt to identify and separate two inwardly rectifying K+ channels in this tissue.
  • (16) We wish Thierry all the best for his future.” New England Revolution ended the Red Bulls’ playoff run on Saturday , and Henry said he had decided not to return for another season.
  • (17) Acinar cells, which are seromucous in nature, contain secretory granules that often contain a perfect "bull's eye" inclusion (or some variant of this configuration) suspended in a dense matrix.
  • (18) Five of the bulls were used in homospermic insemination studies.
  • (19) Among Hereford bulls, body weights were similar (P greater than .10) in all control and relocated bulls by the end of the study, except that MH bulls moved to TX had lower body weights (P less than .01).
  • (20) Twenty bulls were inoculated with bluetongue virus (BTV) to study the frequency, duration and pathogenesis of seminal shedding of the virus.

Cosmos


Definition:

  • (n.) The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
  • (n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
  • (2) The rat studies onboard biosatellites of the Cosmos series have demonstrated that a prolonged exposure to microgravity (up to 22 days) is not a stressogenic factor for the DNA synthetic system of liver cells.
  • (3) In 1974 the USSR carried out a rat experiment aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 equipped with a gamma-emitter.
  • (4) Morphological and histochemical examinations of the skeletal muscles of rats flown for 22 d aboard the Cosmos-605 biosatellite have demonstrated atrophic and dystrophic developments in the soleus muscle accompanied by metabolic changes in the muscle tissue.
  • (5) Testes from rats flown on Cosmos 1887 were compared with vivarium control and synchronous control samples.
  • (6) Bones of the rats flown on Cosmos-1667 were examined histologically and histomorphometrically.
  • (7) Five pregnant growing rats were orbited for 5 days aboard the Soviet COSMOS 1514 biologic satellite.
  • (8) In the "Cosmos-1887" biosatellite experiment, the plasma samples obtained two days after the landing as well as plasma of synchronous animals exhibited the higher fibrinogen levels when compared to those of vivarium animals.
  • (9) Immunological reactivity of rats flown aboard the biosatellites Cosmos-605 and Cosmos-690 was compared with respect to the complementary activity of serum and frequency antibodies to sheep red blood cells.
  • (10) From the histochemical investigation carried out on the digestive tract of rats after 7 days space flight in the soviet biosatellite Cosmos 1667 it resulted that neutral and acid glycoproteins diminished slightly in the sublingual gland, stomach, small intestine and the colon.
  • (11) The population of Chlorella cells flown as a component of the algobacterial cenosis--fish system on Cosmos-1887 was investigated.
  • (12) Yet for the Cosmos, looking to gain their own foothold in a crowded New York sports market about to get even more crowded as New York FC commence play in 2015, and with existing MLS team New York Red Bulls having topped their own regular season standings last year, the association with Pelé is still vital.
  • (13) The flight (COSMOS 1887) was 12.5 days in duration, and the animals were killed approximately 2 days after return to 1 G. Fibers were classified as slow-twitch oxidative or fast-twitch oxidative-glycolytic in histochemically prepared tissue sections.
  • (14) longus) skeletal muscles of flight and synchronous rats from the Cosmos-605 experiment was investigated.
  • (15) After the 7-day space flight onboard the biosatellite Cosmos-1667 the water, Na, K, Ca and Mg content of the liver, kidney, heart, skin and bone of male rats was measured.
  • (16) Liver samples of 12 rats flown aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 and irradiated with a dose of 800 rad and of 12 rats from the synchronous experiment were examined histologically and histochemically.
  • (17) The plasma protein spectrum of flight and synchronous groups of animals in "Cosmos-1887" experiment where plasma samples were prepared in the period of time from 5 to 10 hours after spaceflight coincided with the pattern of vivarium animals.
  • (18) And wherever the Cosmos went, glamour would be close behind; from weekly parties at Studio 54 to dubious behaviour on aeroplanes, the team became synonymous with excess.
  • (19) Growth plate histomorphometry of rats flown aboard the Soviet biosatellite COSMOS 2044, a 14-day spaceflight, was compared with that of control groups.
  • (20) "Claire Rayner found meaning and inspiration in living and the enjoyment of life, in trying to fulfil her potential, and in the wonders of nature and the marvels of the cosmos," said its chief executive, Andrew Copson.